Well, we didn't see this one coming! Serious Sam 4 has surprise launched on Xbox Series X and Series S today, and it's now included with Xbox Game Pass for Series X, Series S, PC and Xbox Cloud Gaming. Great stuff!
The game is a prequel to the beloved Serious Sam series, and it first launched last year on PC, attaining a 68 Metacritic rating at the time. You can play through the campaign in 4-player online co-op or just go it alone, taking on hordes of alien invaders with a "slew of devastating weapons".
As mentioned, there's no Xbox One version of Serious Sam 4 right now, although the cloud version should at least be accessible on last-gen consoles. If you want to buy it permanently, there's a Serious Sam 4 Launch Bundle which costs £33.49 / $39.99 and it includes the Serious Sam Collection.
- Serious Sam 4 - Launch Bundle (Microsoft Store) - £33.49 / $39.99
Croteam returns with a high-powered prequel to the Serious Sam series that scales up chaos to unprecedented levels. The classic Serious Sam formula is revamped by putting an unstoppable arsenal up against an unimaginable number of enemies that requires players to circle-strafe and backpedal-blast their way out of impossible situations.
Will you be trying out Serious Sam 4 with Xbox Game Pass later today? Let us know in the comments.
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This just made my day. Lunch break and news of Serious Sam 4 on game pass! Amazing. Installing it now from work to play at home later!!
For those who have heard bad things about the serious sam games, don't be deterred. Whilst not quite as good as Doom, these games are old school FPS' with gameplay being the central focus. Bloody, loud, rocking and fun. Who cares if the story is crud?!
But will anyone with Game Pass be playing this instead of Halo?
Serious Sam is the sort of game that you play the loudest music you can and just blow sh.. um stuff up in as many amusing and bloody ways as possible.
Certainly one to kick back with after a long work day when you just want to shoot stuff without having to think too much about it.
Will be adding this to my list of games to play.
@Spaceman-Spiff Damn your right, I bet 343i wished they didn’t release Halo Infinite so close to Serious Sam 4. What were they thinking? 🤦🏻♂️
This looks properly silly/ fun! It's good to play something that doesn't take itself seriously every once in a while.
Another to go on my play list , omg Microsoft I do want a life other than games u know ... On second thoughts keep it up
More and more negative gamers recently 🙄 backhanded compliments followed by unnecessary opinions stated as facts. "Looks good but I heard it's total garbage but I'll enjoy it even if it is a pile of steaming crap"
Back in point. I'm excited to try this out 😁😀
Played Serious Sam 4 on stadia and it was only 30fps which is awful for this type of game. It’s a lot better on series x but the frame rate isn’t solid.
I so much want to try this, at least cloud streamed, but I don't want to ruin the "fresh" shooter feeling the day before halo.... I used to love the Serious Sam series, though, most of it's appeal was "they just don't make games like Doom anymore" and it brought back that classic play. Now that they DO make games like Doom again, Sam doesn't occupy the special nostalgic niche it once did. Still so tempted to try it though.
Are they serious? Sorry, I had to 😁 This game makes way more sense on PC, where you can turn it into a fantastic Duke Nukem 3D remake, for example. As such it's a semi-entertaining, mindless shooter with no plot. Bulletstorm/Duke Nukem 3d/Forever would have been nicer.
@Spaceman-Spiff yeah man, with the time Halo's releasing I won't be playing it until thursday
Born from a typo in another post, I couldn't leave without dropping the pun:
So without an Xbox One version, does that make this Series Sam?
ba-dum-tsh. It's ok. I know the way out...
@NEStalgia
Clap! Clap! Clap! 😁
@MaccaMUFC that's exactly his point. Everyone will be on Halo
Game looks terrible. The engine seems very dated. Already tossed it.
@Quaali I know, I was being sarcastic 🙂
Of course everyone is going to be playing Halo instead, well actually going off the recent article about not being able to pre-load Halo’s campaign until it releases, a lot of people might actually be playing Serious Sam after all.
These games just need a better art style and better thematic levels.
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